Your Comments: We need clean water to live

View full sizeGary Walts / The Post-StandardPeople organized by Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation rally outside the State Office Building on East Washington Street, in Syracuse, to call for a moratorium on hydrofracking for natural Gas. At left is Andy Major, in the middle is Amber Coon and at right is Ann Jamison, all Syracuse residents.

Thirteen families in northeastern Pennsylvania’s Susquehanna County say their water wells have been contaminated by poisonous fluids blasted deep underground by a company using hydrofracking to release natural gas from underlying Marcellus shale.

They are suing Houston-based Southwestern Energy Co., alleging that a faulty well allowed toxic fracking fluid to leak into local groundwater.

The story has syracuse.com user myrbch443 worried about the future of groundwater in this state, which also contains Marcellus shale. Here's what myrbch443 had to say:

"500 trillion cubic feet of Natural Gas is very tempting to anyone wanting to make a buck. But the cost of this fracking seems to outweigh the value. If we do not have clean water, we do not have life."